| Course: | LPS 245; Ling 241; Philos 245 |
| Name: | Topics in Philosophy of Language |
| Description: | This seminar will be devoted to the following: (i) The Frege-Hilbert debate on the status of axioms and definitions, and Frege's views on metalogic (ii) Recent research in formal semantics of natural language: concerned with the relationship of donkey anaphora, indefinites, adverbs of quantification and bound variables. (iii) Additional topics depending upon time and interest to include the Gricean program of "Logic and Conversation"; semantic competence and word meaning.
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